by After SpaceX ‘Starship Megarocket exploded during a test flight in January, the company had hoped for a better result than tried on Thursday.
But once again the mission was canceled after the controllers had lost contact with the vehicle in the upper stage.
The 400-foot starship system stuck from the Starbase location of SpaceX near Brownsville, Texas, at 6:30 p.m. ET for his eighth test flight.
But a little more than 8 minutes of the same timing as the misfortune in January rails cut off several engines when the Starship vehicle at the upper stage still accelerated into space. Live video showed the craft before communication was lost.
“Before the end of the promotion fire, an energetic event in the AFT part of the spaceship led to the loss of several raptor engines,” said SpaceX in a statement. “This in turn led to a loss of attitude control and ultimately to a loss of communication with a spaceship.”
The company said that the final contact with a spaceship was about 9 minutes and 30 seconds after the withdrawal.
“I think it is pretty obvious that we will not continue the rest of the mission today,” said Dan Huot, a SpaceX communication manager Dan Huot, in the company’s Live -Webcast.
Shortly after the accident, temporary stops at airports across Florida were ordered for “Space Launch Debris”, including Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood’s international airport and Miami International Airport.
During the explosion, the Federal Aviation Administration published a “rubble reaction area” that prevents the plane from getting into the areas where space truck fell. The agency said that normal operations were resumed.
SpaceX said that all “surviving debris” would have fallen in this “rubble reaction area”. There is nothing to be poisonous in the rubble, and there are no significant effects on the types of sea or water quality.
Videos appeared on social media that show the explosion and possible debris.
An X -user published football of a smoke ball in Boynton Beach, Florida, while others in Jamaica and Turks and Caicos held fiery stripes from rubble that flew across the sky.
The government of Turks and Caicos said that post-scidn protocols were hired. The government said it was in contact with the agency of the FAA, the SpaceX and the British agency to confirm the position of the spacecraft and “to ensure the security of our islands”.
The FAA said on Thursday that SpaceX must carry out a misfortune examination of the event.
“We will carry out a thorough investigation in coordination with the FAA and carry out corrective measures to make improvements to the future Starship flight tests,” said SpaceX in his explanation.
It is not entirely unusual that accidents occur in the development of new rockets and spaceships, but the setback on Thursday is the second time in a row for the spaceship.
During the seventh test mission of the system on January 16, SpaceX lost communication with the upper stage of the vehicle after about 8 minutes. Then it blew over the Caribbean and dropped dust and small rubble pieces over parts of Turks and Caicos. However, the local authorities said that there were no injuries or serious property damage.
Rümmer from a recently published SpaceX start over the sky via Long Bay Beach, Turks and Caicos, January 16.
After this accident, the FAA set an investigation. Although it then clarified the starship for the test flight on Thursday, the examination continues.
The FAA is one of many federal authorities that aims to do the Trump administration on budget and personnel cuts. However, it is unclear whether the workers with the efficiency of the government, led by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, were present in the industrial area of the FAA department of the FAA, which monitors private companies such as SpaceX.
SpaceX said his internal examination of the explosion showed that the most likely cause of and the fuel was triggered, the “persistent fires” in an area of the spaceship known as the “attic” triggered between the bottom of the liquid oxygen tank and the rear heat plate.
The company said that several upgrades made to the upper level on Thursday to prevent similar fires, including adding more ventilation on the unhappy loft.
Although the last test flight of short duration was, he hit a large milestone. The super heavy booster successfully returned to its starting point and settled on the robot arms of the tower. It was the third time that SpaceX showed the impressive “catch” maneuver that is an integral part of his goal of making spaceship a fully reusable system.
Starship, the most powerful rocket ever developed, consists of two parts: a booster in the first stage, which is known as a super heavy and a spaceship in the upper stage.
The Starship test flight on Thursday, like the others before, was not exhausted. SpaceX officers have announced that they will most likely complete hundreds of test missions before the megarock set people.
The next generation Starship Megarocket is expected to play a crucial role in the efforts of NASA to return to the moon. The NASA selected SpaceX to bring astronauts to the surface of the lunar during its planned Artemis III mission, which was planned in 2027. Musk also said that the starship could be used for future missions for Mars.
This article was originally published on nbcnews.com
